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I kind of want the opposite of this: A GUI tool I can draw some diagram stuff out in that renders down to ASCII art. Bonus points if it renders to Markdeep (or

I kind of want the opposite of this: A GUI tool I can draw some diagram stuff out in that renders down to ASCII art. Bonus points if it renders to Markdeep (or an equivalent) to be re-rendered as SVGs or whatever later on. Edit: Here we go - http://asciiflow.com/ http://asciiflow.com/

tiziano88 7y ago
http://asciiflow.com/ http://asciiflow.com/
- rozab 7y ago
  This is cool, but could benefit from some figlet-like text options
Razengan 7y ago
There's also https://monodraw.helftone.com https://monodraw.helftone.com that lets you draw directly in ASCII.
- munfred 7y ago
  Well actually that's more like Unicode Art ;)
- francislavoie 7y ago
  Of course it's Mac only. :(
anigbrowl 7y ago
I like it when these use actual box-drawing characters, ie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437. Boxes made out of asterisks, dashes, and slashes appeal to me about as much as cutlery made out of recycled tin cans and coat hangers; it's the worst of both worlds, too ugly to qualify as real graphics and too distracting to be useful as text. Weirdly, the look worse than 'graphics' on the Commodore PET or TRS-80 (whose 'graphic' characters were helpfully printed on the keys and accessible through combination button presses).
- CoryG89 7y ago
  Wow, I can't believe I went this long without realizing there were these characters specifically intended to be used in text based interfaces. It's funny, these are almost like the opposite of emojis, text trying to be graphics, rather than graphics trying to be text.
  - xtracto 7y ago
    I remember playing with those ansí box characters back in the late 1990s... shit norton , microsoft and every other "graphical" ui for DOS used it.
flutetornado 7y ago
I like to use the vim plugin DrawIt for ascii diagrams: https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/12/how-to-create-ascii-drawings-in-vim-editor-draw-boxes-lines-ellipses-arrows-inside-text-file/ https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/12/how-to-create-ascii-dra... https://github.com/vim-scripts/DrawIt https://github.com/vim-scripts/DrawIt Pretty easy to create comments for code that need a drawing for clear expositions.

tiziano88 7y ago

http://asciiflow.com/ http://asciiflow.com/

rozab 7y ago
This is cool, but could benefit from some figlet-like text options

Razengan 7y ago

There's also https://monodraw.helftone.com https://monodraw.helftone.com that lets you draw directly in ASCII.

munfred 7y ago
Well actually that's more like Unicode Art ;)
francislavoie 7y ago
Of course it's Mac only. :(

anigbrowl 7y ago

I like it when these use actual box-drawing characters, ie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437. Boxes made out of asterisks, dashes, and slashes appeal to me about as much as cutlery made out of recycled tin cans and coat hangers; it's the worst of both worlds, too ugly to qualify as real graphics and too distracting to be useful as text. Weirdly, the look worse than 'graphics' on the Commodore PET or TRS-80 (whose 'graphic' characters were helpfully printed on the keys and accessible through combination button presses).

CoryG89 7y ago
Wow, I can't believe I went this long without realizing there were these characters specifically intended to be used in text based interfaces. It's funny, these are almost like the opposite of emojis, text trying to be graphics, rather than graphics trying to be text.
- xtracto 7y ago
  I remember playing with those ansí box characters back in the late 1990s... shit norton , microsoft and every other "graphical" ui for DOS used it.

flutetornado 7y ago

I like to use the vim plugin DrawIt for ascii diagrams: https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/12/how-to-create-ascii-drawings-in-vim-editor-draw-boxes-lines-ellipses-arrows-inside-text-file/ https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/12/how-to-create-ascii-dra... https://github.com/vim-scripts/DrawIt https://github.com/vim-scripts/DrawIt Pretty easy to create comments for code that need a drawing for clear expositions.